"Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
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"Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
"Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story."